The New Dark Age

Officials from the Information Commissioner’s Office visited 24 GP practices between April and November 2013 to inspect how well those NHS doctors’ surgeries were handling sensitive patient data.

It found (PDF) that several of the sites agreed that staff could access personal email accounts via the surgery’s computer system, and added that local polices on acceptable internet and email usage were “not always reflected in the software/tools that enforced them”.

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